ohio it is not eligible for federal disaster assistance in the after math of a toxic train crash in east palestine. good morning, i m bill hemmer. dana has the day off. back by popular demand sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. fema shooting down the governor s request. the agency said the toxic bill in east palestine does not qualify as a traditional natural disaster. bill: the administration is sending funds to help with medical costs. the head of the epa was there for the first time. on the scene yesterday ohio senator j.d. vance. it is like chemicals coming out of the ground. let me show this to people. watch this. you can see the chemical pop out of the creek. this is disgusting. the fact that we have not cleaned up the train crash, the fact these chemicals are still seeping in the ground is an insult to the people who live in east palestine. sandra: health officials insist the water is safe to drink. but people who live there are concerned. i haven t s
to the scene of the crisis. in mcallen, texas, the testimony from border chief as republicans search for answers and solutions. the white house accusing them of playing partisan games with the hearing. that is rich, considering democrats are playing their own. they were going. even spent our tax money on travel to get there and suddenly a political flip, they all cancelled on the border hearing. a republican spokesperson tells us the members booked travel and called a witness before backing out. here is what they missed. chief ortiz, does dhs have operational control of our entire border? no, sir. harris: what is it exactly the dhs secretary alejandro mayorkas has been saying? not that truth. here he is last year. will you testify underoath, do we have operational control, yes or no? yes, we do. we have operational control at the border? we do. harris: it was bad back then, it is historically raw and dangerous now, you know it is not under control. art delqua.
debate stage. in georgia that was a lie, i m not backing down. my opponent as a problem with the truth. pennsylvania. we should have had a debate already. i actually have a record in fighting crime. and wisconsin. we have to keep violent criminals in jail. it s absurd when people say i m soft on crime. i ll speak with two independents, senator bernie sanders of vermont and utah s independent senate candidate evan mcmullin. plus, trump s testimony. he must accountable. the january 6th committee issues a subpoena for former president trump to testify about his role in the attack on the capitol. we are obligated to seek answers directly from the man who set this all in motion. while new video reveals congressional leaders pleading for help why don t you get the president to tell them to leave the capitol. and new questions emerge on how the secret service handled advance warnings of the threat. i ll talk to democratic congresswoman stephanie m
down claims by trump s attorney that this was a case about records that belonged to trump saying that the documents were not his to have. for her part, judge kennan is at times inclined to order a review of documents into a a special master. quote, justice department attorneys repeatedly pleaded with cannon not to interrupt their ongoing criminal probe that the search warrant excused on august 8th was clearly valid and authorized to obtain evidence of three significant federal crimes. cannon said she was concerned about a couple of instances in which the investigative team had flagged potentially privileged material that was not screened out during the initial review of records. that s the team that was assigned to prevent such occurrences. judge cannon did say that she would unseal a more detailed list by agents at mar-a-lago meaning that we could learn a whole lot more about that extraordinary search. while we await, it is important to put it in broader context. new york
the e.u. cutting off 90% of russian oil imports. bill: check out the gas station in l.a. near hollywood. that s not a movie. that s $8.05 a gallon. julie: we need a new word for sticker shock. when you drive up and see that. making matters worse is the nationwide labor shortage. now we are anticipating brand-new numbers out this morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. the numbers are expected to show 11 1/2 million job openings in this country. that is nearly twice as many jobs as there are people looking for work. bill: the president repeatedly insisting inflation was transitory. during his administration it has continued to climb and climb higher surging to 8.3% under his watch, which is as we know now, a 40-year high. white house has tried to paint a rosie picture of all this. you saw the president s piece published this week. one member of the president s team is now appearing to admit some fault in all of this. i was wrong then about the path of inflation would tak